Fatal Attraction to be adapted into West End stage show

Fatal Attraction, the Hollywood thriller that made a generation of men think
twice about having an affair, is to be adapted into a West End stage show.

Glenn Close and Michael Douglas in a scene from the film.Photo: Rex Features

By Murray Wardrop

12:14AM BST 10 May 2010

The film, starring Michael Douglas as a married father whose infidelity leads to a terrifying stalking campaign by his psychotic jilted lover, is being remade for the theatre and is expected to open next year.

The stage version is being created by James Dearden, who wrote the original screenplay for the Oscar-nominated blockbuster, but will see a few changes to the plot.

Rather than a monstrous villain, Alex Forrest – the stalker played by Glenn Close in the film – will be more of a depressed loner.

However, the famously chilling scene in which Forrest boils her victim’s daughter’s pet rabbit on a stove will remain in the West End remake.